Speaker’s Book:

• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, By John Le Carré

How to Design an Army of Ghosts: The 23rd HQ Special Troops

Print:

• The Ghost Army of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, and Other Audacious Fakery, by Rick Beyer, Elizabeth Sayles

Online:

• The Ghost Army – Ghostarmy.org
• “Design a Tank? Yes, a Fake One” – New York Times
• “Creative Misdirection: How Designer Bill Blass and the “Ghost Army” Tricked the Nazis” – Fast Company
• Podcast – “The Ghost Army” – Stuff You Missed in History Class
• Podcast – “Show of Force” – 99 Percent Invisible
• Movie – “The Ghost Army” – available on Netflix

Bunga Bungle Aboard the HMS Dreadnought

Print:

• The Dreadnought Hoax, by Adrian Stephen  
• The Dreadnought and the Edwardian Age, by Robert J. Blyth and Andrew Lambert
• Virginia Woolf: A Biography, by Quentin Bell

Online:

• “William Horace de Vere Cole (1881-1936 ): A Man of Few Parts” – A History Blog
• “The Dreadnought Hoax: Young Virginia Woolf and Her Bloomsbury Posse Prank the Royal Navy in Drag and a Turban” – Brain Pickings
• The Dreadnought Hoax – Iconic Photos
• “How a bearded Virginia Woolf and her band of ‘jolly savages’ hoaxed the Navy” – The Guardian
• “Grand Deception — Princes Who Outwitted British” – Spokane Daily Chronicle, April 19, 1956

WWII Cryptography: Before Bletchley

Print:

• The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet, by David Kahn
• Stealing Secrets, Telling Lies: How Spies and Codebreakers Helped Shape the Twentieth Century, by James Gannon

Online:

• “Classic Cryptography” – Cryptology Corner
• George Fabyan Collection – Early Editions of Works of Seventeenth-Century English Literature, Publications Relating to Cryptography – Library of Congress
• Podcast – “Cryptography” – BBC

The Women of Bletchley

Print:

• Dilly: The Man Who Broke Enigmas, by Mavis Batey
• The Debs of Bletchley Park and Other Stories, by Micheal Smith
• The Secrets of Station X: How the Bletchley Park codebreakers helped win the war, by Michael Smith
• The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There, by Sinclair McKay
• Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson 

Online:

• Bletchley Park – Google Cultural Institute
• “History of Bletchley Park” – BletchleyPark.org
• Bletchley Park Research

Covert Technologies and Hiding in Plain Sight

Print:

• Complete Guide to Internet Privacy, Anonymity & Security, by Matthew Bailey
• Internet Security: Online Protection From Computer Hacking (Computer Security, Internet Hacker, Online Security, Privacy And Security), by James Cloud

Online:

• “This Infographic Shows How to Delete Yourself from the Internet” – LifeHacker
• Computer Security Resource Center – National Institute of Standards and Technology

Speaking Easy

Print:

• The Speakeasies of 1932, by Al Hirschfeld
• The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech, by Irving Lewis Allen
• The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, by David A. Embury, Robert Hess
• A Farewell to My Old Shipmates and Messmates, by John Bechervaise

Online:

• “Liquor Licenses, Steelworkers, and the British Nay- an Unlicensed History and Etymology of ‘Speakeasies'”
• “Speakeasies with a Twist” – Wall Street Journal 
• “Belle Livingston Jailed for Contempt of Court” – The Cornell Daily Sun 
• “10 Secret Bars in SF You Probably Don’t Know About” – Thrillist

For each salon, we invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Marcelo Pontin, Tysa Marie Rauch, Beth Abdallah, Michael Brodhead, Stephanie Rosenburg, and Lilia Gutnik. Thank you!